Many religious scholars have noted that the life experiences and teachings of Jesus and the Buddha were remarkably aligned- so much so as to suggest they may have been twin incarnations of the same God, operating in different cultural settings. Conventional Christians and Buddhists would recoil at this proposition but a more detached observer might regard it as felicitous, indeed sublime. Given that Buddha distilled the essence of Hinduism as Jesus did of Judaism, their convergence could pote...